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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Cinema Discusso > Psychological Horror/Thriller(Not Goreporn) +Sci-Fi-Thriller Films!
 
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Hazo
Dec 30, 2004

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Calculations posted:

Cmon, folks! Don't let this thread die! There have got to be more awesome movies out there!

Where else can I look for good horror/psychological horror movies?
You namedropped it heavily in your first post, but since, interestingly, nobody's directly addressed it so far...

Silent Hill is pretty drat good.



I absolutely love the "close, dark, and atmospheric" sub-genre of horror films (and this thread has given me many more to check out!), and while Silent Hill does get a little too gore-ish towards the end (which, in my opinion, drags it down), it definitely echoes similar movies like Jacob's Ladder, The Mist, and Session 9.

I've never touched the video game series, but:
The movie revolves around a woman stranded and searching for her daughter in a small abandoned community (allegedly based on on the modern-day perpetually-burning ghost town of Centralia, PA), whose atmosphere changes horifically every time the air raid siren goes off and subsequently makes every movie-goer poo poo him or herself.

...I'd like to include a video or sound clip here of the actual stand-alone air raid siren on which the movie sound effect was based, but over the years the Google results for "Silent Hill siren" have been replaced with kids begging for ringtones. Rest assured though, it's pretty creepy.

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Hazo
Dec 30, 2004

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Levantine posted:

The atmosphere of Silent Hill was the best part about it.

the Bunt posted:

Coming from a humongous fan of the Silent Hill game (and good horror movies), I pretty much loving loathed the movie...though, even I have to admit, it did get some things (mostly aesthetics) very right.
Again, I've never played any of the games (I watched part of the LP of the first one(?) about a year ago, but that's about it), but I completely agree; the atmosphere of the film was just so purely disturbing, and that's what sold it for me. There aren't many films I can remember that come close to capturing that element of uncertainty, despair, and isolation except The Mist and maybe even Cloverfield. I feel like I Am Legend would do the same but I haven't seen it because I am a bad person.

e: I still haven't tracked down the real-life analogue to the civil defense siren sound effect used in the film, but here's the movie track for your enjoyment

e2: bwoop, it's from France. Apparently it's different in the games, but they're all pretty much terrifying.

the Bunt posted:

When I saw the movie, I figured that Sean Bean was tacked on there to build up to a SH2 adaptation. The protagonist in SH2 is a man searching for his wife, so it would make sense.

But nope, the new SH movie is actually an adaptation of the third game. So, really, none of it makes any sense to me.
This thread is actually the first I've heard of the sequel actually going forward. Last I'd heard it was still in development hell, so I'm amazed they've finally pulled the trigger. Wiki says Bean is still in it, and he and Malcolm McDowell are both awesome (and so is the actress who played Rose in the first film), so as long as they can capture that same kind of psychological aesthetic I'll definitely be there to watch.

Hazo fucked around with this message at 07:00 on Oct 25, 2011

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Hazo
Dec 30, 2004

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 I did a search and I've found nowhere else to talk about this, but... I saw this on a commercial tonight and apparently there's a new Silent Hill film coming out?? As a gigantic fan of the brilliant atmospheric horror of the first two-thirds of the first film I'm pretty loving stoked, but has anyone else heard about this new movie and if it will or will not suck?

wormil posted:

I never watched because apparently I mixed it up with another movie and until recently thought it was a base revenge/torture porn flick.
Did you mix it up with "Death Tunnel" like I did years ago? :saddowns:

Hazo fucked around with this message at 05:57 on Oct 1, 2012

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